[link to www.blackboxvoting.org] Convicted of 23 felonies for computer crimes, Jeffrey Dean was sent toprison for four years. Shortly after his release from incarceration, hiscompany was awarded one of the largest ballot printing contracts in history.

In a 2003 deposition, Dean states that he was a scapegoat who was leftholding the bag in a series of unapproved payments from Culp, Guterson &Grader, one of the most politically connected law firms in Washington state.

One of this firm's partners at the time was Egil "Bud" Krogh, who headed theWhite House "plumbers" unit under Richard Nixon. Krogh ordered the burglaryof Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg.

Dean claimed that other persons from the firm were involved in a scheme, andupon discovery of illicit payments (averaging $14,000/month) he was made totake the blame. Krogh was a partner at Culp Guterson & Grader during thetime period that Dean was receiving illicit payments of approximately$15,000 per month.

Like Jeffrey Dean, Krogh did time in prison -- four months forWatergate-related crimes. He was disbarred, but after a fight from a CulpGuterson & Grader attorney, his credentials were restored. At the time, thefirm was called "Culp Dwyer Guterson & Grader."

'He [Krogh] was hired on the merits of his character, intelligence andskills as a lawyer,'' said William L. Dwyer, the firm's senior partner, whohad represented Mr. Krogh in his disbarment fight. Dwyer became a U.S.district judge.

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This ballot printing plant, using software Dean claims to have developed,handles ballot printing and mail-ballot processing for counties like KingCounty (WA) and Los Angeles County, Fresno County, San Diego County, AlamedaCounty (CA), and for the state of Georgia and many other locations.

The Deans were rewarded for Jeffrey Dean's ballot printing and electionsoftware programming work in a $4 million buyout by Global Election Systemsshortly before election 2000. The Deans became the largest stockholders ofGlobal Election Systems, and Jeffrey Dean took a position on the board ofdirectors.

In January 2002, Diebold Inc. purchased Global Election Systems. Oddly, in a2003 deposition, Jeffrey Dean claims that his contact with Global was alwaysPat Green -- but Green is a Diebold employee, not a Global Election Systemsemployee. Yet Diebold claims it hasn't worked with Jeffrey Dean.

The Dean's ballot printing company was acquired by Diebold in the GlobalElection Systems acquisition.

WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?

The Vote Remote software and the absentee ballot processing softwaredeveloped by Jeffrey Dean was never submitted for certification, has notbeen examined by anyone, and due to technicalities in the certificationregulations, is not subject to certification. Several counties have recentlyannounced plans to force voters into all mail-in voting, including KingCounty, Jeffrey Dean's first elections client.

Exactly what Jeffrey Dean was doing to the GEMS database program, what"oversight" he was providing to the touch-screen technology purchased byDiebold, and what expertise he provided for the votercard encoder, theoptical scan 1.96 series, and the upcoming High Speed Central Count are notpublicly known at this time.

Diebold claims that it did not work with Jeffrey Dean after acquiring GlobalElection Systems in 2002. However, the Dean depositions reveal that in Mayand June 2002, during the time the "rob-georgia" patch was created, JeffreyDean was called back to do consulting for Diebold. The Deans have beenaccused of obstructiveness and evasion by attorneys seeking to recover fundsin a pending bankruptcy case. Specifically, when asked to identify moniespaid by or due from Diebold Election Systems, they omitted answers.

Depositions, documents, and supporting documentation will be posted on theBlack Box Voting Web site this week. These documents include depositions,bankruptcy papers, criminal court records, SEC documents and civillitigation records.

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I did 'testing' on diebold vote machines.they run a modified version of WINDOWS CE.they are perfectly capable of casting votes on their own.yes kids - 'vote fixing' would be very easy with the damn things.

Two counties in Florida have terminated their use of Diebold computerized voting equipment after computer experts showed that vote totals could be changed by a single individual in a way that would be undetectable later.

The county commission of Leon County, which includes Tallahassee, voted on Dec. 13 to scrap its Diebold equipment and switch to a different manufacturer, at an estimated cost of $1.3 million. Three days later, the county council of Volusia County (Daytona Beach) approved a similar change. The switch will cost that jurisdiction at least $2.5 million, county officials said.

These actions, and the events that led up to them, can teach us a great deal about our dependence on computer procedures that are developed by flawed human beings.

It's not just elections, of course, that are affected by programming errors and poorly understood code. Imagine your company purchasing a large development project from an outside firm. If that firm overcharges you, and you dispute the bill, can your mission-critical software be disabled at the push of a button by its developers until you pay up? It's a good idea to ask these questions before you invest your money in computerized solutions.

Testing the Vote-Counting Equipment

The revelations in the Florida counties were engineered by Herbert Thompson, a computer science professor at the Florida Institute of Technology, and Harri Hursti, a programmer who lives in Finland. They examined optical-scan ballot counting equipment purchased by Leon County from Diebold Inc., a major maker of ATM and election equipment. The technicians were introduced to county supervisor of elections Ion Sancho by BlackBoxVoting.org (BBV), a nonprofit organization that critiques computerized voting.

Under Sancho's watchful eye, the computer experts ran the following demonstration, according to a BBV report.

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Voting Machine Controversy by Julie Carr Smyth "COLUMBUS - The head of a company vying to sell voting machines in Ohio told Republicans in a recent fund-raising letter that he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year." The Aug. 14 letter from Walden O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold Inc. - who has become active in the re-election effort of President Bush - prompted Democrats this week to question the propriety of allowing O'Dell's company to calculate votes in the 2004 presidential election." [link to www.commondreams.org]

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RE: White House 'PLUMBERS UNIT'

White House Iraq `Plumbers Unit'Behind Plame Leak

The questions posed by EIR's own recent expanded probe of WHIG are: Did the Bush-Cheney White House create a Nixon-style "plumbers unit" to orchestrate a campaign of disinformation to justify the invasion of Iraq? And did the unit engage in criminal leaks and other illegal and unscrupulous actions to discredit critics of the long-planned Iraq preventive war? Do those crimes reach the threshold of "high crimes and misdemeanors" spelled out in the U.S. Constitution to warrant impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney, and even President Bush? [link to www.larouchepub.com]

The White House Plumbers or simply The Plumbers is the popular name given to the covert Nixon White House Special Investigations Unit established July 24, 1971. Its job was to stop the leaking of confidential information (hence the "Plumbers" title) to the media during the Nixon administration. Its members branched into more nefarious projects working for the Committee to Re-elect the President (CRP, or the more derogatory CREEP) including the Watergate break-ins. [link to en.wikipedia.org]

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In 04 that the republicans stole the election by stealing OH and a handful of other states. In those states the exit surveys were way off of the final tallies, unlike all the other states where the exit polling was right on. The machines allowed them to do that.

Now, it is also interesting to see what acorn and others did for obama in 08. There were a few great articles written on how they stole the IA caucus for him when he was up against hilary. Also in the general election as well in states like MI, OH, etc.